Improvement in the manufacture of enameled cloth



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. HAINES, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHNMGLOBINAN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ENAMELED CLOTH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 5] ,997, dated January9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. HAINES, of the city of Newark, in thecounty of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new anduseful article of manufacture, to wit, a new article of ()rnamentedCloth or Leather; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same.

My improvement relates to the surface finish or coating of the cloth,leather, or other material, producing a new and beautiful finish andeffect.

My new article of cloth is made by coating it,in the ordinary way, witha varnish composed of two or more varnishes or varnish substances, eachhaving an independent and different amount of drying property, one muchgreater than the other, so that when admixed together and applied uponthe cloth and dryed the effect will be, on account of the unequal dryingproperties of the varnish, to oorrugate or crystallize the surface ofthe varnish in a regular irregular manner, so that the cloth, when driedand ready for the market, will present an unequal surface, similar tofrost-work on a window.

The cloth or leather used by me is of the usual description, and theprocess is the same as now employed. The only novelty is in the varnish,which, in combination'with the cloth, leather, or other suitablematerial, producesa new article of manufacture, as described, havingmore beauty and finish and much of the character of embossed cloth orleather formed by passing enameled goods through calenders or engravedrolls.

The varnish employed by me may be made of any suitable materials and invarious ways and proportions. I prefer now to make it as follows: Fivepounds of pulverized burnt umber is mixed in one gallon of rawlinseed-oil and the whole boiled down, so that when cool it will bequite hard. 1 then take one and one-half gallons of raw linseed-oil andmix into it one pound of pulverized burnt umber and heat the same to500. The two varnishes thus formed are mixed together and applied in theusual way.

WVhat I claim as a new article of manufacture, and desire to secure byLetters Patentof the United States, is-

An enameled cloth made substantially in the manner described.

W. H. HAINES.

Witnesses:

DANIEL F. TOMPKINS, ELrAs TAYLOR.

